Date: 1727
"Old Men view best at a distance with the Eyes of their Understanding as well as with those of Nature."
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Date: 1737, 1743
"Our Passions are like Convulsion-Fits, which, although they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after."
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Date: 1737, 1743
"Superstition is the Spleen of the Soul."
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Date: 1737, 1743
"Wit in Conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of Expression, or (in the Midwives Phrase) a quick Conception and an easie Delivery."
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